'Recitation' definitions:
Definition of 'recitation'
(from WordNet)
noun
Written matter that is recited from memory
noun
A public instance of reciting or repeating (from memory) something prepared in advance; "the program included songs and recitations of well-loved poems" [syn: recitation, recital, reading]
noun
A regularly scheduled session as part of a course of study [syn: course session, class period, recitation]
noun
Systematic training by multiple repetitions; "practice makes perfect" [syn: exercise, practice, drill, practice session, recitation]
Definition of 'Recitation'
From: GCIDE
- Recitation \Rec`i*ta"tion\ (r[e^]s`[i^]*t[=a]"sh[u^]n), n. [L. recitatio: cf. F. r['e]citation. See Recite.]
- 1. The act of reciting; rehearsal; repetition of words or sentences. --Hammond. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The delivery before an audience of something committed to memory, especially as an elocutionary exhibition; also, that which is so delivered. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Colleges and Schools) The rehearsal of a lesson by pupils before their instructor. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'recitation'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- address,
- after-dinner speech,
- allocution,
- assignment,
- chalk talk,
- debate,
- declamation,
- diatribe,
- discourse,
- disquisition,
- eulogy,
- exercise,
- exhortation,
- exposition,
- filibuster,
- forensic,
- forensic address,
- formal speech,
- funeral oration,
- harangue,
- homework,
- homily,
- hortatory address,
- inaugural,
- inaugural address,
- instruction,
- invective,
- jeremiad,
- lecture,
- lecture-demonstration,
- lesson,
- monologue,
- moral,
- moral lesson,
- morality,
- moralization,
- object lesson,
- oration,
- pep talk,
- performance,
- peroration,
- philippic,
- pitch,
- preachment,
- prepared speech,
- prepared text,
- public speech,
- reading,
- recital,
- sales talk,
- salutatory,
- salutatory address,
- say,
- screed,
- sermon,
- set speech,
- set task,
- skull session,
- speech,
- speechification,
- speeching,
- talk,
- talkathon,
- task,
- teaching,
- tirade,
- valediction,
- valedictory,
- valedictory address